HR Administration Team Leader

Job Introduction

We’re looking for an experienced and forward-thinking HR Administration Team Leader to join our HR Operations team. This is a unique opportunity to grow and shape a high-performing HR Administration team from the ground up, playing a key role in defining how HR services are delivered across the business. You’ll lead the delivery of high-quality, efficient and compliant HR services across the employee lifecycle, while driving operational excellence, data integrity and continuous improvement. You’ll also play a key role in supporting our transition to SuccessFactors, helping to embed new, streamlined ways of working across HR Operations.

If you’re passionate about creating structure, embedding best practice and building a strong team culture, this is a role where you can make a real impact.

Main Responsibility

• Leading end-to-end HR administration across the employee lifecycle (from onboarding through to leaving), ensuring accuracy, quality and SLA delivery
• Building the HR Administration team, including shaping roles, ways of working and service standards
• Creating a high-performing, customer-focused team culture, with clear KPIs and performance expectations
• Overseeing the production of employment documentation, ensuring it is compliant, consistent and audit-ready
• Driving high standards of HR data quality and integrity, working closely with HR Systems to improve processes and workflows
• Ensuring compliance with employment legislation, internal policy and data protection requirements
• Acting as the escalation point for complex lifecycle queries and cases
• Partnering with HR colleagues globally to balance standardisation with in-country requirements
• Identifying and delivering continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service and employee experience.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Proven experience in HR Operations or HR Administration leadership
• Experience of building, shaping or transforming teams and services (highly desirable)
• Strong knowledge of the end-to-end employee lifecycle
• A track record of driving process improvement and operational excellence
• Experience managing HR data, systems and reporting with a focus on accuracy and control
• Good understanding of employment legislation and compliance requirements
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships
• A collaborative and proactive leader with a passion for developing people and improving service delivery
• Working knowledge of an HCM System (Success Factors, Workday, Oracle, UKG, Dayforce)

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.